Maya Steinberg is a secular Israeli. Her father, however, had a late religious awakening. He will not appear in her film. Instead, the young director approaches his faith and her lack of understanding for it through a visit to the gravesite of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Galilee, where she spends a few weeks, observing believers, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, and wondering: Is there a place here for women? And can there be a place for queer women? [65 DOK Leipzig, Marie Kloos]
Festivals/Awards
2022 65 DOK Leipzig 26 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2023 Ethnografilm Paris Achtung Berlin FF 17 Ethnocineca IDFF Vienna 20 Freiburger Filmforum – Festival of Transcultural Cinema 47 Duisburger Filmwoche